The socioeconomic status of white ethnics

Gene Expression
By Razib Khan
Aug 16, 2010 4:31 AMNov 20, 2019 5:41 AM

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In the post below on the prolific nature of the Kennedy clan some commenters were curious as to the general socioeconomic slant of Irish Catholics. The GSS has a variable ETHNIC which asks which nation an individual's ancestors came from. Combine that with RELIG, and you can figure out how Irish Catholics stack up nationally. While I was looking at Irish Catholics I thought I would look at whites from various nations. I decided to exclude Jews from the analysis because I think there's a big difference between Polish Catholics and Polish Jews socioeconomically and we'd lose information aggregating. Further, I constrained the sample to non-Hispanic whites. To look at socioeconomic index I focused on the SEI variable. Here's how SEI is calculated:

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